AB 662, as amended, Bonilla. Public accommodation: disabled adults: changing facilities.
The federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the California Building Standards Code require that specified buildings, structures, and facilities be accessible to, and usable by, persons with disabilities. Existing law requires, among others, any person who owns or manages a place of public amusement and resort to provide seating or accommodations for physically disabled persons in a variety of locations within the facility, as specified. Existing law authorizes the district attorney, the city attorney, the Attorney General or, in certain instances, the Department of Rehabilitation acting through the Attorney General, to bring an action to enjoin a violation of prescribed requirements relating to access to buildings by disabled persons.
This bill would require a person, private firm, organization, or corporation that owns or manages a commercial place of public amusement, as defined, constructed on or after January 1, 2020, or renovated on or after January 1, 2025, to install and maintain at least one adult changing station, as defined, for a person with a physical disability, as specified. The bill would require a facility to ensure that the entrance to each adult changing station has conspicuous signage indicating its location, and, if the facility has a central directory, ensure that the central directory indicates the location of the adult changing station.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 19952.5 is added to the Health and Safety
2Code, to read:
(a) A person, private firm, organization, or
4corporation that owns or manages a commercial place of public
5amusement shall install and maintain at least one adult changing
6station for persons with a physical disability that is accessible to
7both men and women when the facility is open to the public, if
8either of the following occur:
9(1) The commercial place of public amusement is newly
10constructed on or after January 1, 2020.
11(2) (A) When an existing commercial place of public
12amusement is renovated on or after January 1, 2025, and requires
13a permit or the estimated cost of the
renovation is ten thousand
14dollars ($10,000) or more.
15(B) A commercial place of public amusement with an enclosed
16restroom facility or other similar private facility with an adult
17changing table in use before January 1, 2025, shall be deemed to
18comply with this paragraph.
19(b) A facility shall ensure that the entrance to each adult
20changing station has conspicuous signage indicating the location
21of the station, and, if the facility has a central directory, shall ensure
22that the central directory indicates the location of the adult changing
23station.
P3 1(c) For purposes of this section, all of the following definitions
2shall apply:
3(1) “Commercial place of
public amusement” means an
4auditorium, convention center, cultural complex, exhibition hall,
5permanent amusementbegin delete park structure,end deletebegin insert park,end insert sports arena, or theater
6or movie house for which the maximum occupancy is determined
7to be 2,500 or more people. “Commercial place of public
8amusement” does not include any publicbegin insert or privateend insert higher
9educationbegin delete facility.end deletebegin insert facility or district agricultural association.end insert
10(2) “Adult
changing station” means an adult changing table
11placed within an enclosed restroom facility or other similar private
12facility that is for use by persons with physical disabilities who
13need help with diapering.
14(3) “Physical disability” means a mental or physical disability,
15as described in Section 12926 of the Government Code.
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